Books with author June Colbert

Junior fiction adventure - 28,000 words.Jeffo and his mates notice the water levels are getting higher. Why hasn't anyone else seen this? And then suddenly it's all over the news - along with the melting iceberg in Sydney Harbour and port cities all over the world going under. Families are encouraged to take in High Water refugees, so Jeffo's family takes in Frogboy's family. But the water keeps rising and they all have to move. They find a farm inland and set up camp - but what are the townspeople not saying? Sheep go missing, then teachers ... clearly there's something in the water....

Harris Carmichael avoids birthdays - he was hit by a car on his eight birthday and now gets around in a wheelchair. He's still on a quest to discover the driver of the car. On his tenth birthday his luck contnues - he gets bitten by a huge dog-like creature. And then the changes begin - the itching, the hairiness, the ears that move...And the dreams - of running on legs instead of rolling on wheels. Four legs. And when the moon is full, his dreams come true and he's strong and free of his wheelchair. He's also a werewolf - but he refuses to accept it until an irritating gypsy keeps popping up and saying annoying things. But how will he tell his best friend Jake that he now howls at the moon?Junior fiction - 17,000 words

THE KING OF LARGE is the personal diary of Robbie, an overweight kid. Robbie's problems with his weight become critical when his health deteriorates to the point where he has blackouts and is excluded from the school soccer team. Soccer is the only sport he enjoys and, with his self-esteem steadily diminishing and the ongoing bullying and name calling from his classmates increasing, Robbie is at an all-time low. On top of all of this, Robbie is experiencing troubles with his younger brother and his best friend is having family problems. June Colbert explores a number of issues that affect a person's health and well-being in this sensitive and very funny story. We share his thoughts and feelings as well as the family support networks that help him begin to deal with his problems.

Joseph Pasco is only 11 but he's in high school, thanks to an accelerated learning program. This does not make him popular. He's also selected to go to Egypt on an Archaeological dig - this also does not make him popular. He gets texts like 'josef pasco you suck' and 'you need to be ded'. His trip to Cairo allows him some freedom from the haters. He finds a buried toe bone at the famous Red Pyramid, and a dumb old pot at the City of the Dead. Not great finds - but they seem to have some kind of power. When he's being picked on, they hum - and buzz. And the cyberbullies suddenly start backing off - terrified of something.Could it be the Zombie Toe of Terror?12,000 words - Junior Fiction. Planned as a series.

All the petrol has finally run out - so the world has to learn how to use steam again - and gas. Schools now teach airship flying, and inventions, and alchemy - practical skills for a new steam-powered, much slower world. Nic (named after legendary inventor Nicola Tesla) loves steam powered gadgets and is too busy trying to get into Alchemy school to notice that strangely dressed people are popping up from the past. They are slipping into his time through an invention called 'Frances Fisher's Future Flux Device' - which is funny as it was only invented as a bet.But Jack the Ripper - or someone looking and acting very like him- is in Nic's house now, and that's not funny. How can Nic prove that he is the Victorian criminal and that he poses a real danger?He needs to invent some kind of Truth Telling Tincture - but first there are the rats. How can he get rid of all the rats - using an original invention that will also get him high marks as a school project?He desperately wants to get into Alchemy Apprentice School - otherwise he'll have to work on the SteamPlatforms with his sister, processing Incomers and sorting out the Real Past Timers from the fakes.And he wants to ultimately find a way to close the Past Portal - before any more dangerous types come across.But is Jack really from the past?And what's in Jack's old black doctor's bag?Photo on cover : Moving Pictures II by Samuel Keystone Sprocket, steampunkempire.com

Teen talent is the new, softer version of American Idol. Duke is selected by his school to play his piano and sing some old jazz standards. Surprisingly, he rises through the ranks. Problem is, so does a sinister goth bank called The Nyghtmare.And one by one, bad things begin happening to the other contestants - especially the folk singer Silver, and vulnerable Nikki. And then Jackson turns up drowned.Duke's girl crush Miranda thinks they may all be part of a blood drinking cult called Sanguinarians. Duke just thinks the Nyghtmare are using drugs or Absinthe to manipulate the voting. Until his best friend Eddie starts to change, too...